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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7943260 | System and method for recirculating unused fuel in fuel cell application A system and method for delivering an input fluid stream through a fuel cell stack and discharge an unused fluid stream is provided. An inlet of the fuel cell stack is adapted to receive the fluid stream. An ejector is configured to combine the supply fluid stream a... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942781 | High-efficiency vehicular transmission A high-efficiency vehicular transmission is provided. The transmission includes a transmission housing, a set of torque delivery elements which include first and second elements supported for rotation within the housing and an electric motor for changing angular vel... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942387 | System and method for managing water content in a fluid A system and method for managing water content in a fluid include a collection chamber for collecting water from the fluid with a desiccant, and a regeneration chamber for collecting water from the desiccant and transferring it to a second fluid. An evaporator cools... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942142 | Battery powered concrete saw A concrete saw (10) has an electric motor (24) energized by a battery pack (34) to drive a pair of saw arbors (42) and a battery powered transmission (30) drives rear wheels (16) that provide self propulsion of the saw in co... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942035 | Anode leak test implementation A system and method is provided for detecting an anode leak of an anode stream in a fuel cell stack. The system comprises a controller that stores at least one first predetermined control value that corresponds to a first pre-selected pressure level. The controller ... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7942011 | System and method for managing water content in a fluid A system and method for managing water content in a fluid includes a collection chamber for collecting water from the fluid with a desiccant, and a regeneration chamber for collecting water from the desiccant and transferring it to a second fluid. An evaporator cool... | 05/17/2011 |
| D637946 | Steering wheel | 05/17/2011 |
| 7941257 | Method and system for detecting installation of an unmonitored tire on a vehicle A tire pressure monitoring system includes sensors respectively associated with tires normally installed on a vehicle. Each sensor transmits a sensor signal indicative of a parameter of the associated tire to a controller. The signal strength of each sensor signal a... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7941250 | Method and a device for obtaining a predictive vertical speed of a rotorcraft A method and a device for obtaining a predictive vertical speed of a rotorcraft, the device constituting a predictive vertical speed indicator (1) that includes at least: first elements (1′) for measuring the instan... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940496 | Reinforced tape for a data storage device A data storage device is disclosed with a housing sized for a tape drive. A tape reel is mounted for rotation within the housing and a guide is mounted in the housing spaced apart from the tape reel. A first end of a data tape segment is mounted to the tape reel and... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7940297 | Pipeline inspection system An inspection system configured for “no-blow” use in a pressurized gas pipeline includes a push rod wound around a spool for convenient deployment and portability. A camera disposed on one end of the push rod is configured to relay images back to a monitor. A mo... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939847 | Quasi-vertical light emitting diode A quasi-vertical light emitting device is provided. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the quasi-vertical light emitting diode includes a sapphire substrate; a plurality of semiconductor layers grown on the sapphire substrate, the plurality of sem... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939736 | Adjustable lever arm capo A capo (10) for use with a stringed instrument comprises a top arm (12), lower arm (16) and a lever arm (24). The top arm (12) is adapted to extend across a fingerboard of the instrument above the strings (4), and a side arm... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939619 | Organosilicon compounds that contain β-ketoamide groups and organic polymers bound via enamine bonds, and method for producing them Organosilicon compounds containing β-ketoamide groups and organic polymer groups bound via enamine bonds are prepared by reaction of compounds bearing at least one β-ketocarbonyl functionality with organosilicon compounds bearing aminoalkylaminoalkyl groups. The p... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939618 | Process for the continuous preparation of organopolysiloxanes having aminoalkyl groups Organopolysiloxanes having aminoalkyl groups are prepared by (i) reacting (A) linear, cyclic or branched organopolysiloxanes with (B) aminoalkylsilanes which have an SiC-bonded, basic nitrogen-containing hydrocarbon... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939592 | Use of vinyl chloride-ethylene copolymers for hydrophobing construction substances Copolymers of ethylene and vinyl chloride also containing a protective colloid, optionally in conjunction with a fatty acid compound or precursor thereof or with an organosilicon compound, can be employed to increase the water repellency of hydraulically settable co... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7939173 | Polycrystalline silicon rod for zone reflecting and a process for the production thereof The invention relates to a polysilicon rod for FZ applications obtainable by deposition of high-purity silicon from a silicon-containing reaction gas, which has been thermally decomposed or reduced by hydrogen, on a filament rod. The polysilicon rod contains, surrou... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7938911 | Process for cleaning a semiconductor wafer using a cleaning solution Semiconductor wafers are cleaned using a cleaning solution containing an alkaline ammonium component in an initial composition, wherein the semiconductor wafer is brought into contact with the cleaning solution in an individual-wafer treatment, and in the course of ... | 05/10/2011 |
| 7937195 | System for managing a power source in a vehicle A system for managing a power source in a vehicle having an engine and an electric machine can set first and second discharge limits for the power source, where the second discharge limit is higher than the first discharge limit. A buffer value can be determined as ... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7936868 | Method and system for automatically generating flow charts of call flow programs A method and system automatically generates flow charts of call flow programs used in a call center based on information about the call flow program and other telephone system resources collected from the call center. Such collected information includes automatic ca... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935885 | Insulated assembly of insulated electric conductors An insulated assembly of insulated electric conductors includes a first plurality of insulated electric conductors. Each insulated electric conductor has a copper core, a uniform thickness thin sheet of aluminum that is mechanically formed to envelope the copper cor... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7935614 | Epitaxially coated silicon wafer and method for producing epitaxially coated silicon wafers A multiplicity of silicon wafers polished at least on their front sides are provided and successively coated individually in an epitaxy reactor by a procedure whereby one of the wafers is placed on a susceptor in the epitaxy reactor, is pretreated under a hydrogen a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934774 | Vehicle seat assembly having a hardness gradient In at least one embodiment, the present invention provides a vehicle seat assembly comprising a cushion having an “A” surface and a “B” surface, a central portion, and two bolster areas, with each bolster area being adjacent the central portion, with the cus... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934472 | Climate controlled pet shelter An apparatus and method for moderating the environment of a pet shelter is provided. The apparatus may include a climate control device which may be attached to the pet shelter in order to regulate the temperature and environment within the pet shelter. The apparatu... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934330 | System for hanging different items on walls The invention relates to a system for hanging items, such a pictures, posters, paintings or the like on walls and other surfaces. The picture (1) shows one or more magnets contacting a fitting which is fastened to the wall by magnetic attractive material to a... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7934293 | Hinge mechanism A hinge mechanism 10 to lift the rear edge of a bonnet 11 of a motor vehicle comprises an upper leaf 13 connected to the bonnet 11, a lower leaf 12 connected to the body structure of the vehicle and a middle leaf 14 connecte... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7933937 | System and method for asynchronous parallel garbage collection A system and method for asynchronously graying and blackening objects in the marking phase of parallel garbage collection. The system and method use a matrix to control a series of linked list of work to be grayed and blackened. The threads of the garbage collector ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933875 | File system with distributed components A distributed file system is disclosed which may include one or more input/output (I/O) nodes and one or more compute nodes. The I/O nodes and the compute nodes may be communicably coupled through an interconnect. Each compute node may include applications to perfor... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933812 | System integrator and commodity roll-up A purchasing entity directs the sourcing of one or more parts in a microprocessor-based method. The microprocessor-based method comprises obtaining over a computer network sourcing information from a primary supplier which identifies one or more third party secondar... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933553 | Tuneable radio-frequency identification tag reader and method of reading such a tag A radio-frequency identification (RFID) system is provided that includes an RFID reader that is provided with a capacitor apparatus or circuit that may be used to tune the transmitter to a different frequency to improve communication with an RFID tag. The frequency ... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7933324 | Power regulator Method and system of power regulating, such as but not limited to attenuating signal power levels. The power regulating being suitable for use in any number of application, environments, and circuits, including but not limited to those associated with a universal ga... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930993 | Dispenser device with remote-controlled dispenser for the release of dispenser materials for an animal and corresponding method The invention relates to a dispenser device, in particular, a reward dispenser device, comprising at least one dispenser for the release of a dispenser material for an animal, in particular, a dog, whereby the dispenser is provided with at least one dispenser materi... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7930878 | Method and apparatus for rapidly thawing frozen NOx reductant According to one aspect of the present invention, a liquid reductant tank for supplying liquid reductant to a selective catalytic reduction system is disclosed. The tank includes a tank cavity for holding a liquid reductant and being at least partially defined by on... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7929944 | Method and system for enabling a mobile user to manage calls A method includes provisioning a mobile user with usage minutes for usage calls. The method includes determining whether the mobile user and a telephone user either belong to the same provider or different providers after a call between the users is initiated. The c... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927571 | Method and device for producing high purity polycrystalline silicon with a reduced dopant content In the batch production of high purity polycrystalline silicon, in which a U-shaped silicon carrier body is fastened in an open deposition reactor, the deposition reactor is hermetically sealed, the U-shaped carrier body is heated electrical current, a silicon-conta... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7927127 | Electrical terminal device An electrical terminal device includes an insulation displacement connector section and a terminal section. The insulation displacement connector section has a connector slot formed therein which is configured to receive a first wire conductor. The terminal section ... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7925680 | System and method for processing data management files in a virtual storage environment A system and method for processing a plurality of data storage and retrieval management or manifest files in a virtual data storage system. A plurality of individual management/manifest files, which are each used to track data management information stored on a data... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924019 | System and method for fault isolation and leakage current detection An inverter system for a vehicle including a housing, a primary stage, a secondary stage and a fault detection circuit is provided. The primary stage is configured to receive a first voltage signal from an energy power source to generate a second voltage signal. The... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7924004 | Electric potential sensor for use in the detection of nuclear magnetic resonance signals The present invention provides nuclear magnetic resonance apparatus comprising means for applying a static magnetic field (H0) to a sample under investigation, a radio frequency circuit arranged to be inductively coupled to the sample by means of an oscil... | 04/12/2011 |
| 7923667 | Electric room heater Electric Room Heater in its housing contains heaters which consist of strip of oriented cold rolled transformer sheet that are cooled by natural air circulation. Heater consists of two cross supports (11) connected by a central support (14). Between th... | 04/12/2011 |
